Women on Screen

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-x

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2. Introduction

   1. Introduction

      • Melanie Waters

      Pages 1-14

3. Generations

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 15-15

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   2. Nancy Meyers and “Popular Feminism”

      • Kathrina Glitre

      Pages 17-30

   3. “I’m nothing like you!” Postfeminist Generationalism and Female Stardom in the Contemporary Chick Flick

      • Shelley Cobb

      Pages 31-44

   4. Alias: Quality Television and the New Woman Professional

      • Rosie White

      Pages 45-57

   5. The Horrors of Home: Feminism and Femininity in the Suburban Gothic

      • Melanie Waters

      Pages 58-73

4. Sex and Sexuality

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 75-75

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   2. Bad Girls in Crisis: The New Teenage Femme Fatale

      • Katherine Farrimond

      Pages 77-89

   3. Butch Lesbians: Televising Female Masculinity

      • Helen Fenwick

      Pages 90-102

   4. “Challenging and Alternative”: Screening Queer Girls on Channel 4

      • Martin Zeller-Jacques

      Pages 103-120

5. Makeovers

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 121-121

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   2. Under the Knife: Feminism and Cosmetic Surgery in Contemporary Culture

      • Stéphanie Genz

      Pages 123-135

   3. Imperialist Projections: Manners, Makeovers, and Models of Nationality

      • Brenda R. Weber

      Pages 136-152

   4. Femininity Repackaged: Postfeminism and Ladette to Lady

      • Angela Smith

      Pages 153-166

   5. Performing Postfeminist Identities: Gender, Costume, and Transformation in Teen Cinema

      • Sarah Gilligan

      Pages 167-181

6. Violence

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 183-183

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   2. Return of the “Angry Woman”: Authenticating Female Physical Action in Contemporary Cinema

      • Lisa Purse

      Pages 185-198

   3. Negotiating Shifts in Feminism: The “Bad” Girls of James Bond

      • Lisa Funnell

      Pages 199-212

   4. “A Caligula-like despot”: Matriarchal Tyranny in The Sopranos

      • Anna Gething

      Pages 213-224

A timely intervention into debates on the representation of feminist and feminine identities in contemporary visual culture. The essays in this collection interrogate how and why certain formulations of feminism and femininity are currently prevalent in mainstream cinema and television, offering new insights into postfeminist media phenomena.

• cinema
• culture
• feminism
• gender
• media
• television
• Visual Culture
• media research

• Northumbria University, UK

  Melanie Waters

SHELLEY COBB Teaching Fellow in Literature and Film at the University of Southampton, UK. KATHERINE FARRIMOND Doctoral student at Newcastle University, UK. HELEN FENWICK Ph.D. candidate in English Literature at Newcastle University, UK. LISA FUNNELL Ph.D. graduate in Film Studies from Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada.  STÉPHANIE GENZ Senior Lecturer in Media and Culture at Edge Hill University, UK.  ANNA GETHING Part-time Lecturer in English at Bath Spa University, UK.  KATHRINA GLITRE Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at the University of the West of England, UK. SARAH GILLIGAN Lecturer in Media at Hartlepool College of FE, UK.  LISA PURSE Lecturer in Film in the Department of Film, Theatre& Television at the University of Reading, UK. ANGELA SMITH Lecturer in Language and Culture at the University of Sunderland, UK.  LINDSAY STEENBERG Lecturer in Film and Television Studies at the University of East Anglia, UK.  BRENDA R. WEBER Associate Professor in Gender Studies at Indiana University, USA.  ROSIE WHITE Senior Lecturer in English at Northumbria University, UK.  MARTIN ZELLER-JACQUES Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Theatre, Film and Television at the University of York, UK.

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